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I have no idea what the authors of that study think they are trying to show. Their methodology is inane. Only when I'm specifically asking for something network related (load a web page, send a message, etc), will the connection be overt. All ba…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rogifan Don't agree. Developers shouldn't be required to support A5 anymore. And I think most developers would be happy if they didn't have to. I doubt many non-retina mini's are flying off the shelves. And I wouldn't …
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radarthekat wrote: » So, if a user already has a 365 sub, purchased prior to downloading the free iPad app, with that sub, when logging in, enable editing? I'm guessing yes, thus bypassing the 30% commission paid to Apple's App store. Seems like …
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I think it's time to stop talking about smartphone marketshare and simply talk about cellphone marketshare. The metrics I'm interested in are is the overall cellphone market changing and how is Apple doing as a percentage of that market. Essential…
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leonard wrote: » So developers working on both iOS and Android are using money from the iOS app to pay for development of the Android app? Because basically this story is saying it's not worth it to develop on th Android platform. It's much more…
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mac_128 wrote: » Apple still made a sizable investment in the 5c, that likely did not yield them any more income than they would have received had they simply discounted last years 5 as they had done in previous years. Does the 5c cost less to …
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I'm curious about whether there really are difficulties with fingerprint sensors. The invasivecode post linked in the article was really unconvincing. As best I could tell, he was describing a capacitive touch screen and all of his issues arise …
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Interesting, if true, that Apple is only showing higher Yelp rated businesses in searches. That would make it easier to fix one of my biggest issues with Apple Maps which is that it just plain fails to find many businesses that I know exist. I f…
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The charges were fraudulent so of course Apple refunded them. I am the only person authorized to make purchases on my credit card. My child is not. That's part of the contract that I have with the credit card company. Just because Apple, the c…
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I'm somewhat baffled by the hostile response of most commenters. My feeling was the article was completely non-controversial and suffered from restating the obvious! The basic argument is that coupling a mobile device (which I already own) …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy The maps Apple receives from TeleAtlas, Canada's DMTI and many others are also vector-based, just as Naveq/Nokia's competing maps are. That's why Apple maps are vector rather than bitmapped, not because…
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Quote: Originally Posted by brianus Thank you! I'm baffled by all these comments about "losing" Street View. When did we ever have it??! Touch a pin. On the left is a little man in an orange circle. Touch there and if …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Harbinger I have trepidations about this. Apple's track record in software only projects (outside of OS) is spotty. If the goal is to displace Google, the outcome will not be great. This is a fundamental…
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Quote: Originally Posted by newbee Once more, with feeling ..... FT does not have to be in the app store .... readers can go to a FT website, if they choose. The problem is that FT wants to be part of the app store for obvious reasons, but they w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell I don't know if I can agree that what Apple brings is only 3% of the value. They bring the entire iOS ecosystem, the App Store, and over 200 million customers. Without Apple's efforts none of that would exist …
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Quote: Originally Posted by DocNo42 So in your mind, the 30% that Apple was charging was 100% expense? Put another way, Apple brought absolutely no value for that 30%? As was exhaustively discussed when Apple first introduced this policy, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Patranus What does this have to do with Apple? Approve the Apps and let the developers work it out. Its not Apples job to play patent judge. Considering that Apple now requires that apps that sell via websites o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cameronj I'd love to know why one user driving down a street out of every 100, which in most busy streets would mean one every 3-4 minutes I imagine, wouldn't be plenty to feed a database of street speeds. And yes, if…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lordoftheflatbush This crowd surfing traffic app already exists: INREX traffic. Link: http://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/id324384027?mt=8 Works awesome. That link is to the Dutch app store. While INRIX may be using …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jvolino Actually, it's Apple that could be accused of doing the copying: From the Wall Street Journal, 4/22/2011: "Google also has said it uses some of the data to build accurate traffic maps. A cellphone's locatio…